“The Eye of the Gods”
December 2008

Corny, right? That’s kind of what her name means, according to my mum. I remember starting the sketch for this at night in the winter of 2008, and drawing and painting pretty much like I was possessed. It’s not even remarkable, but I couldn’t go to sleep until I’d finished it— right at dawn. I really just had to get the face down. She’s since changed a little in my head, but the shifting colour of her eyes was really hard for me to capture and eludes me anytime I try to paint the character now. I tried to make her look kind-of-but-not-really suspended in water, but at the last minute hated the way the reflections of ripples looked, so I removed them.